You gotta love a place where you can get flavorful fresh pizza, farm fresh eggs AND locally made cheese all in one place.
Seriously.
Nooooooo thank you. You won't find that here. It's not Wallery's. It's not Paddington's. It's not Pietros (oh god, no). It's... Indepizza. Like I would make... but much better thanks to hot ovens and a kick ass red sauce recipe.
Stay in, or pick it up and take it home. We picked up three individual sized pies (mine, hers, and one for her hubby at home), each with its own fairly convoluted ordering specifics. I had a demand about how much sauce I expected, wanted, NEEDED on my pie which was red sauce, pepperoni, artichoke hearts, black olives and mushrooms.
The available topping selection is pretty diverse, and everything we had tasted fresh, from anchovies to black olives. The individual pies start at just $5, as do the calzones. Adding up toppings, my pie came to a bit over $9.00, but I was very pleased.
Whatever style you want to call it, here's the rundown: The crust is crispy and very tasty, but not too thin, and not too thick. A slice has enough structure to stand up on its own (at least the small size), yet has soft, tender areas that really impart impressive flavor. Sauce and toppings mostly out to the ends of the crust; no big puffy bones to deal with. It was warm and yeasty, done to perfection: just enough heat to release all the flavors, but not so much that things started to dry or char. The combo of crust, a tangy and sweet sauce (one of the best I've had in a long while), fresh cheese (rumored to be home made) and generous toppings was hearty enough that I had half the 'za for dinner, and the other half for a late night snack.
I'll be back for the product and the service. And maybe even challenge my partner to a few games of air hockey.
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Chance, the young Pizza Chef mentioned above, started cooking as a child and began the long, laborious task of perfecting his Pizza recipes while still in high school. As with most master practitioners of cookery I've encountered, his final products are a blend of trial and error, fertile imagination and innocuous larceny. Chance told me he tried Pizza in many places, tried to duplicate the qualities that he liked and combine them into a superior product. I'd say he succeeded.
I've been there 3 or 4 times now and each time he's knocked it over the left field fence!
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